RIGHT TO INFORMATION
 

• RIGHT TO INFORMATION NOTIFICATION

RIGHT TO INFORMATION
The Right to Information under the provisions of the RTI Act is available to the citizens of India only. RTI Act is an important legislation designed to promote transparency and accountability in the functioning of public authorities.
The full text of the RTI Act is available on the website:
http://righttoinformation.gov.in/RTI-Act.pdf.
The RTI Act also provides for appeals by aggrieved persons to the Central Information Commission of the Government of India.
Indian citizens resident in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay may seek information in writing on payment of requisite fee during office hours on working days as per procedure laid down in the RTI Act, 2005.
Contact details of officers for addressing applications under Right to Information Act, 2005:-

Public Information Officer
Mr. S.N.V. Ramana Rao
First Secretary
Fax: 00 54 114393 4063
Email: polsec@indembarg.org,ar


Appellate Authority 
Mr. Amarendra Khatua
Ambassador
Fax: 00 54 11 4393 4063
Email: ambassador@indembarg.org.ar


Applications seeking information under the Act may be sent along with a fee of Argentine Peso 1 (one Argentine peso only) in cheque or demand draft favoring Embassy of India. (Embajada de la India).
It may be noted that information provided under the Act is available to citizens of India only. Applications should be submitted along with documentary proof of Indian Citizenship (like copy of personal particulars pages of passport.)More information is available at  http://rti.gov.in. The mailing address is Embassy of India, Av. Madero, 942, 19th Floor, Buenos Aires.

It may also be pointed out that as per section 6(1) (a) of the RTI Act, 2005, a person who desires to obtain information under the Act is required to submit the application to the Information Officer of the “concerned public authority”. Applicants are, therefore, advised to send their requests under the RTI Act to the Embassy only when the subject matter can reasonably be presumed to pertain to the Embassy. While section 6(3) provides for the transfer of an application by a receiving PIO to another [concerned] PIO, this is clearly meant to cover situations where the application is addressed to a PIO on the assumption that it has been directed to the concerned PIO. Where the information required obviously does not pertain to the Embassy, the application may be addressed to the concerned PIO directly.